 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! ."Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that.s gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid hirr^, — But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - Lawyers - 1843 - 568 pages
...his narrow bed, And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly...And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'U reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...lonely pillow, The foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow I Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 20* Not the... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 6. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 7. Not... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! 6. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold asjhes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1985 - 1106 pages
...are revealed by tearing away the skin, showed he had been scalped, though still living. Chapter XXI "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him." Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of... | |
 | Sam R. Watkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 256 pages
...chicken tomorrow?' "Lightly they'll talk of the Southern Confed. that's gone, And o'er his empty carcass upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the place where they have laid him. "Sadly and slowly they laid him down, From the field of fame fresh... | |
 | History - 2013 - 249 pages
...his narrow bed And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er Ms head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him," 85. THE VICTOEY... | |
 | M. B. Synge - History - 2013 - 249 pages
...his narrow bed And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er Ms head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er Ms cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reek, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton... | |
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We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him... 
